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Channahon ( SHAN-ə-hon) is a village in Grundy and Will counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. The population was 13,383 at the 2020 census.

Located in a rural area southwest of Joliet, Illinois, Channahon lies at the confluence of the Des Plaines, Kankakee, and DuPage rivers, where they form the Illinois River. The Illinois and Michigan Canal runs through the village, intersecting the DuPage at Channahon State Park. Most of the village is within Channahon Township in Will County. The current village president is Missey Moorman Schumacher.

Archaeological evidence suggests that the land on which the village now stands was inhabited as long as three to four thousand years ago by Mound Builders. When white settlers arrived in the to the lead 1830s, the region was populated by Potawatomi, with whom the in the future settlers had friendly relations. The settlers called the area “Channahon,” a Potawatomi phrase translated as “meeting of the waters.”

When construction of the I&M Canal began in 1836, Channahon’s location was selected as the site for two of the waterway’s locks. In 1845, Myrvin Benjamin plotted a new treaty to accept advantage of the two rivers and nearly-completed canal surrounding the location. First called “DuPage” for the river and then “Swifton” for the I&M Canal board president, the treaty was formally named Channahon taking into consideration the township doling out was organized in 1850. Channahon prospered until the rise of railroad transportation in the late 19th century caused commerce and population in the canal town to decline. The Village of Channahon was first incorporated in 1896, but dissolved in 1908 to avoid a case after an automobile plummeted into the DuPage River due to a bridge failure.